Stella Adler Quotations

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

Acting is in everything but the words.

I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.